A hard look at GuardDuty shortcomings
AWS GuardDuty is a belt and suspenders security control for your cloud. However, it’s often taken as a panacea for cloud threat detection. I wanted to dive deeper and run some concrete experiments. Read on for the results of adversarial simulation, a review of detection latency, and an analysis of projected S3 ransomware timing. The conclusion? GuardDuty has coverage, cost, and efficacy gaps. These limitations make Canary Infrastructure a great complement, with a best-in-class signal-to-noise ratio, consistently low latency, and lower cost. If you're interested in how Tracebit can help, click Book a demo above to schedule a call with one of our founders. GuardDuty’s role as a required control for PCI DSS and NIST.800-53.r5 and place in Scott Piper’s AWS Security Maturity Roadmap is evidence of its cornerstone role in AWS security. It provides a baseline threat detection capability with a mix of signature, heuristic, and machine learning based rules. It’s strengths lie in: The past two
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